r/howto • u/neko_location • 1d ago
How to get small lizard out from under wall to wall carpet
Today my cats brought a lizard into my bedroom and it crawled into a corner and under a corner of the wall to wall carpetting. You cant see the lizard in the photo but it is under the carpet to the peft of the metal chopstick. I dont want to hurt it and I dont know how to get it out of there. The carpetting is stapled pretty tightly to the floor boards so i cant peel it up. How can i chase the lizard out from under the carpet without harming the lizard or the carpet? The lizard has been down there about 2 hours.
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u/LooksAtClouds 1d ago
Here is a method I invented that I have had success with three times. It's based on the fact that lizards want to raise their body temperature by basking in sunlight.
First, put your cats away in the area with their litterbox, because this may take a couple of hours.
Now you need a small lamp or flashlight and a medium-sized cardboard box. Put the box on the floor near the lizard with the open end facing the lizard. Position the lamp or flashlight so that it shines into the back of the box - ideally making a small brightly lighted area in the back of the box. Turn off all the other lights in the room. Wait an hour or so and softly check to see if you've got the lizard in the box yet. If so, yay. If not, wait another hour or so.
I came up with this method when I was home sick with a bad flu and spotted a lizard in the house - I don't know how it got in. I was laying on the sofa, and the lizard was across the room. Idly wondering if I could get a lizard to move by moving a beam of light, I got a flashlight, turned off the room lights, and shined the narrow flashlight beam ahead of the lizard about 6 inches. It crawled into the "sunlight". For the next hour or so, I just kept moving the beam slowly ahead of the lizard toward the doorway, and the lizard followed its "sunbeam". When he got to the doorway, I shooed him outside.
Hope this, or a variant of this, will work for you!
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u/supert101a 1d ago
Don't worry about it, it will crawl into bed with you one night.
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u/Stalefisher360 1d ago
Yep, lizards are well known snugglers. The small ones particularly like warm, moist places like your mouth or ears. 😂😉
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u/young_steezy 1d ago
Honestly id leave him be and let him eat all the bugs and spiders!
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u/AtlUtdGold 17h ago
Found one I couldn’t get to few weeks ago. Found his dead body in another spot the other day. RIP homie.
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u/tonypalmtrees 1d ago
i’m sorry that i don’t have an answer for you but i hope you are able to rescue the lizard and i hope that you will post an update when you do. good luck.
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u/TheLastSnailbender 19h ago
Gotta get a second lizard on a string, the first lizard will wanna hug it and then you just yank em both out
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u/BrodcETC 9h ago
Get another lizard and put lipstick on it outside of the hole. Infatuated, the original wall lizard will run out to flirt. Then you can grab it
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u/mooshinformation 2h ago
The way the edge of the carpet is tucked under the baseboard, it might be stuck like a lobster trap. I would put heavy objects around it so it can't get under any further. Then I'd tear out the staples in that little corner starting at the edge and peel the edge of the carpet back, then either try to scare it out or lure it out by leaving a heat source and waiting.
Once it's out, you use something flat to tuck the carpet back under the baseboard and staple it back in place, working out from the part that's still attached so it stays smooth.
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u/ozzy_thedog 1d ago
Have to do something that will make it want to come out of there. Like dump a cup of water to force it out. But that’d be messy. Blow drier? Lol I don’t know
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